A man skis down a slope at Gulmarg, an Indian ski resort about 35 miles from Srinagar. It's not a well-known ski destination, no doubt because it gets only between three and five feet of snow during the winter.

Frank Jenkins and R.M. Parker stand by a quarter-scale replica of a Wells Fargo stagecoach in Knoxville, Tenn. The two belong to the Smoky Mountain Shootist Society, whose members participate in competitive shooting while dressed in Old West-wear.

An initiate of the Hindu Juna Akhara sect vows to sever his worldly ties and dedicate himself to God as a Naga, or naked holy man, during a ritual at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in Allahabad, India.